Scarlet fever was the leading cause of infant death during the Victorian era. Today, the bacterial infection remains common, especially in the winter months. But thanks to modern medicine and ...

Parents were today warned to be on their guard for 'highly contagious' and potentially lethal scarlet fever. The infectious disease, which was most prominent in the Victorian era, largely affects ...

These are five of the Victorian-era diseases that are being spotted in 21st-century patients. Between 1820 and 1880, there was a world pandemic of scarlet fever. It would return annually to urban ...

People are being urged to watch out for symptoms of a Victorian disease ... However, the incubation period may be as short as 1 day and as long as 7 days. Scarlet fever usually clears up after ...

He added: “If we stop immunising our children, then we go back to the Victorian era. We look upon these ... rise in Victorian diseases such as scarlet fever, as children continue to mix freely.

Diseases and conditions associated with the poverty of the Victorian era such as malnutrition, scarlet fever, scurvy, typhoid, rickets, cholera and tuberculosis are on the increase in Derbyshire.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported 52,183 notifications of scarlet fever from September 12 ... cases of measles in the same time period. The World Health Organization noted: "A ...

Parents were today warned to be on their guard for 'highly contagious' and potentially lethal scarlet fever. The infectious disease, which was most prominent in the Victorian era, largely affects ...